Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Revolutionary teachers and students smeared paste all over my body and stuck on pieces of paper with abusive slogans. They forced me to wear a black dunce cap and beat me with their belt buckles. 1 spent 103 days in a dreadful hideout for devils and demons and underwent what is too painful to describe...
...smoke cigars and relax in rumpled shirtsleeve comfort. For businessmen who do not want to relax, Braniff offered portable typewriters and Dictaphones. And for passengers with Klondike fever, Alaska Airlines was featuring Gay Nineties flights, replete with schooners of beer, red-velvet and gold-tassel cabin decor, stewardesses who wear ankle-length red-velvet skirts and sport 1890 hair styles, and in-flight announcements sung to Calamity Jane lyrics...
...coffee now," says one Utah saint. "The church should not make its prohibition a commandment." Still another quaint tradition is the Mormons' use of "temple garments"-a torso-covering form of underclothing signifying their covenant with the Lord-which devout believers, both women and men, are expected to wear...
...strong G.O.P. showing resulted from a strictly partisan contest. Tiernan, 38, and DiPrete, 39, are similar down to the horn-rimmed glasses they both wear. Both are Roman Catholics, lawyers, fathers of three-and uninspiring campaigners. There was little to distinguish their views on most issues. Neither announced a stand on Viet Nam until an independent "peace" candidate, Unitarian Universalist Minister Albert Perry, forced them into a choice (Perry got 2.7% of the vote). Tiernan came out in full support of the Johnson Administration. DiPrete at first favored a suspension of U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam, then-realizing that...
...greatest reward of all, of course, is that Weight Watchers look better to members of the opposite sex, and know it. Singer Sylvia Syms, 43, dropped 30 lbs. in eleven weeks, as a result dared to wear a bathing suit for the first time in her life on a recent Caribbean vacation. And when New Jersey Housewife Fran Jaffe, 38, took off 50 Ibs., her pleased husband presented her with a full-length mirror, to which he lovingly attached a note: "You are the fairest of them...